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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus. After ten yard lives, second and eight free
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Speaker 1: wide receivers. Now in motion is Bumpas. Left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones. A single setback Matt Pumpfecks looking at the
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Speaker 1: goal line, he throws it into the end zone. Touchdown,
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Speaker 1: Saint Hawks. It's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the
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Speaker 1: end zone. Our ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpus and
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Speaker 1: the kid out of Washington State has found himself a
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Speaker 1: place on this team. Powered by Seahawks dot Com. What
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Speaker 1: on swelves. This is Hog Talk Preview edition Week eleven.
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Speaker 1: The Seahawks looked to bounce back and avoid a three
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Speaker 1: game losing streak for the first time in Russell's career
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Speaker 1: against the Cardinals this weekend. The Cardinals are coming into town.
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Speaker 1: But before we get into that, here's Natson Cholby with
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Speaker 1: the injury updates. Thanks bump Well, It's been a rough
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks for the Seahawks on the injury front.
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Speaker 1: They've been down about five starters each of the past
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Speaker 1: two weeks. Still no real update on Shaquille Griffin. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna get on the field this week and we're have
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Speaker 1: to go from there. Starting center, Eaton Postic remains in
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Speaker 1: concussion protocol, and after finally making his return, special team's
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Speaker 1: captain Nico Thorpe will be out again with a core injury.
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Speaker 1: Real bummer there, since we know how much he means
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Speaker 1: this team in that locker room. Now, the guy who
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Speaker 1: stepped in for Eaton posted Kyle Fuller he's dealing with
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Speaker 1: an ankle injury, but Pete Carroll hopes still get him
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Speaker 1: back on Thursday night. If he's unable to go, Jamarco
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Speaker 1: Jones would step in at center. However, a new injury
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Speaker 1: popped up in the game last week, and now was
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Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett. Yeah, he's got a bit of a niche
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Speaker 1: brain and generally he's already had a checked out in
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Speaker 1: MRI and all that kind of stuff. So he's a
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Speaker 1: little bit discomfort, a little bit swallowing today, But it's
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Speaker 1: not a serious knee injury, so we'll look to see
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Speaker 1: how he does day to day and take it till Thursday.
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Speaker 1: BEKAA also gave some encouraging news on the running backs,
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Speaker 1: Carlos Hide and Chris Carson. I'm told that Carlos is
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Speaker 1: going to go today. In our work, Chris is working
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Speaker 1: to get it back. He's trying to make it. Carlos
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Speaker 1: is a little but ahead of him now and so
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Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. I can't tell you what's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen Thursday night yet, but both those guys are
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Speaker 1: trying hard this week to get back. And lastly, Jamal Adams,
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Speaker 1: who suffered his shoulder injury, had to go back in
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Speaker 1: the locker room, came out finished the game against the
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Speaker 1: Rams with playing with essentially one arm, and according to
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Speaker 1: head coach Pete Carroll, Jamal will do everything in his
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Speaker 1: power and make it back. He says he's playing, he's
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Speaker 1: ready to go. He got banged up pretty good. He
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Speaker 1: played really with one arm for the most part in
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Speaker 1: the game. Ended a marvelous job of getting through it.
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Speaker 1: There was a couple of plays he couldn't make that
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Speaker 1: he wished you could have, but but it was just
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Speaker 1: because of his arm he played or shoulder. He played
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Speaker 1: really hard and got after it. And before we get going,
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Speaker 1: The Ardinals the rematch back at Century Link Field. Who's Next,
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Speaker 1: Who's next? Who's Next? The Arizona Cardinals are next. They
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Speaker 1: are six and three, standing on top of the NFCA West.
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Speaker 1: There in the first place, we're familiar with these dudes.
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Speaker 1: Loss of the Lions, loss of the Panthers, loss of
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Speaker 1: the Bills, excuse me the Dolphins, but they beat the
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Speaker 1: Bills last week and one and had one of the
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Speaker 1: most remarkable plays I've ever seen in my life. If
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Speaker 1: you're not familiar with what went down, we'll get you
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Speaker 1: into it. But let's let's kind of set it up
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Speaker 1: before we get to that miraculous player, Tode Hopkins the
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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals and beat the Bills one of the best
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Speaker 1: plays ever. Like I just mentioned on the previous possession
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Speaker 1: of Bills were traveling twenty six to twenty three with
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Speaker 1: seconds remaining, josh Alan connects with Stefan Digs for the
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Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown second and one at the twenty one
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Speaker 1: the snaff Alan looks to his left Fire's left side
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Speaker 1: and go to the Steffins Mikes a catch touchdown, Buffalo
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Speaker 1: touchdown stepfind Digs catches the touchdown pass from Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: twenty one yards to go ahead touchdown, and it comes
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Speaker 1: with thirty four seconds left to play. Thirty four seconds
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Speaker 1: left to play bagel of thirty two twenty six. But
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Speaker 1: you just can't count out these Cardinals. After a couple
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Speaker 1: of big completions, it was first and ten from the
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Speaker 1: Buffalo forty three yard lane with eleven seconds remaining. Now,
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Speaker 1: Typically in this situation, you try to get one more
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Speaker 1: play before tossing that thing to the end zone. But
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Speaker 1: Murray was fleshed outside of the pocket and had no
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Speaker 1: choice but to close his eyes, make a wish, then
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Speaker 1: throw it up to d Hopkins. Now the Bills dropped
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Speaker 1: two men back twenty five yards down field. Murray back
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Speaker 1: to throw, flushed out, rolling left in trouble, slips the tackle,
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Speaker 1: Gotta launch it. He does left side into the end zone,
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Speaker 1: jump ball and it is Is it caught? Is it cost?
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it soun DeAndre Hopkins bought. He caught
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Speaker 1: it for a touchdown second lap. I can't believe it
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Speaker 1: you've gotta be joking me. Hopkins reaches up with three
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Speaker 1: defenders around him, he pulls it in and the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: lay at thirty two to thirty with a second lap.
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Speaker 1: You can't cover Duke. Hey man, that's just you see
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Speaker 1: both calls there. One was from the Bill's radio broadcast
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Speaker 1: and the other was Dave Pash and Ron Wolfley with
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals broadcast at just a tail of two different emotions. Brother,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you go up thirty four seconds, you think
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Speaker 1: the game's over. Stefon Diggs, it's a huge catch. You
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Speaker 1: got thirty four seconds knowing, Hey, you just can't give
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Speaker 1: up a touchdown. And man, that honest hand of God,
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Speaker 1: that was one of the best players I've ever seen,
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Speaker 1: the fact that he first of all, because you have
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Speaker 1: eleven seconds, you have one more play. That's not what
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Speaker 1: you're You don't need to throw it to the end
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Speaker 1: zone on that play. And Cliff Kingsbury spoke this week,
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Speaker 1: so that's not how they wanted it to go. The
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Speaker 1: first three wasn't there. Murray had to scramble outside the pocket,
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Speaker 1: and at that point the games you need to get
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Speaker 1: a quick play. That didn't happen. He literally throws it
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Speaker 1: to the end zone, gets knocked down, and because he's
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Speaker 1: so short, Kingsbrady said he couldn't see what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Immediately snapped his head back to the video board and
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Speaker 1: saw Hopkins come down with it. So Hopkins was worth
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Speaker 1: every penny in The Cardinals got him on the low.
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Speaker 1: I mean that was that was armed robbery. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what was going on with the Texans, but he
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Speaker 1: is a factor that we're gonna have to contend with
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Speaker 1: for a long time here in the NFC West. The
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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals are getting a return on their investment most definitely.
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Speaker 1: Now a lot of people say that was love. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you need some luck. You need some luck. Got to
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Speaker 1: throw it up there, clothes you eys make a wish.
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Speaker 1: But Dee Hopkins got some mittens. He grabs that thing
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Speaker 1: out of the air. If there's a picture where I
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Speaker 1: saw Dee Hopkins. Now this might be the first time
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Speaker 1: I've seen Jordan logo gloves. I don't even know they
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Speaker 1: made those. You got Jordan logo gloves, You got a
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Speaker 1: Dida's reaching for, You got Nike gloves reaching for Jordan
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Speaker 1: brand y'all better get on your job and makes some
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Speaker 1: money play right there. Oh, you already know that's about
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Speaker 1: to be a commercial for a show like Jordan Rising.
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Speaker 1: Just abuff, Adidas, get out of here and I keep
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Speaker 1: trying to come back. I mean, that was unbelievable and bump.
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Speaker 1: Let's look at this team, man, So Seahawks Cardinals both
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Speaker 1: six and three. The thing that jumps out of me
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Speaker 1: with the Cardinals is how much their offense has approved
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Speaker 1: over the last couple weeks and since last time we
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Speaker 1: saw him. Total offense number one in the NFL now
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Speaker 1: ahead of the Seahawks were number three at four hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty five yards per game. In their rushing attack,
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Speaker 1: it's a two headed monster with Murray and Drake Will
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Speaker 1: getting those guys in a man up. But they're running
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Speaker 1: the ball for one hundred and sixty eight yards per game.
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Speaker 1: So they're getting it done on offense, getting done on offense,
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Speaker 1: and their defense that's kind of went down a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So that's nice to see. In the Seahawks defense, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of well rising up a little bit. So there
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Speaker 1: we go. There, there's a positive there. We look at
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Speaker 1: their defense or total defense, they are ranked eighteenth. I
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Speaker 1: mean they got the Hawks rank thirty second total deadens.
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Speaker 1: But they got better in other areas, is what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Rush defense, they are sixteenth, the Hawks are four. Pass defense.
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Speaker 1: We know the Hawks struggle there that second, and the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals are twentieth. When it comes to allowing points, the
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Speaker 1: Hawks are now twenty eighth instead of dead last with
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Speaker 1: twenty nine given twenty nine and the Cardinals give them
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Speaker 1: twenty three. So same team, but they're changing a bit.
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Speaker 1: And that's football, that's the NFL. You're not gonna play
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Speaker 1: the exact same team you did the first time you
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Speaker 1: played the Hawks. That has some injuries for the most part,
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals have been fairly healthy, so they got they
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Speaker 1: got some luck on their side. They're main guys. Well,
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Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake is banged up still. Chase Edmans has come
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Speaker 1: in and played well for them. We all know what
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Speaker 1: d Hoppins can do. You mentioned it before we got
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Speaker 1: on here. Colin Murry might rush for a thousand yards
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Speaker 1: this year. You just might do it. So you gotta
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Speaker 1: contain that man. That's the head to head. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: learn about the history and know your history. No, your history,
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Speaker 1: all right, Well, the series record is twenty one twenty
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Speaker 1: one in one so about as dead even as possible,
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Speaker 1: even with a tie in there in. Since twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: the series is four four and one, so it's about
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Speaker 1: as even as you get. As you know, twelves, it's
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Speaker 1: been mainly the home team losing every matchup in this series.
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Speaker 1: The last meeting, obviously, it was a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: Seahawks lost a game that they're essentially dominating, lost in
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Speaker 1: overtime thirty seven thirty four, a tough loss that was
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Speaker 1: the first time the Cardinals had beat the Seahawks in
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Speaker 1: Arizona since twenty twelve. Russell Wilson's first career start. However,
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Speaker 1: despite the painful ending to the game, we got to
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Speaker 1: see one of the greatest performances by wide receiver in
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Speaker 1: club history and Tyler Lockett fifteen receptions, two hundred yards,
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns, and we got to see truly how fast
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Speaker 1: dk Metcalf is. First and goal, Russell takes a shotgun
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Speaker 1: snap Carson, Oh no, it's picked off. Going the other way.
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Speaker 1: It's Bouddha Banker down the nearest sidelines. Nobody's gonna catch
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Speaker 1: him unless Metcalf can. He is sprinting, he is running,
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Speaker 1: He dis and he catches him. DK Metcalf catches Buddha
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Speaker 1: Baker on a little dump pass into the right flat
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Speaker 1: and Russell never saw him and he steals the ball away. Now,
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Speaker 1: when I was growing up, we used to run somebody down.
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Speaker 1: He said, Man, you got hawked. And it's funny how
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Speaker 1: it all it all comes together. Now DK hawked Bude Banker.
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Speaker 1: Bude Banker gave us a love and say, man, I
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Speaker 1: can't believe DK ran me down like that. Big us
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Speaker 1: show some respect. One of the greatest hustle plays of
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Speaker 1: all time, no question about it. I think I think
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Speaker 1: we realized some of those guys out there that want
10:23
Speaker 1: to specialize in just one sport, go out there and
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Speaker 1: run some track. Go out there, getting the room and
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Speaker 1: run some track, play some moves because you can see
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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf as he was just striding out. If you
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Speaker 1: don't have any kind of track experience in your background,
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Speaker 1: you're not catching him like that. You could just telling
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Speaker 1: his stride, the way, his hands removing, getting them legs up.
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Speaker 1: So that was great to see for sure. Now, Bump,
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Speaker 1: we gotta figure out what's going on in the West,
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Speaker 1: because man, things have changed since the last time we played.
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Speaker 1: And the Seahawks, where the NFC West champs again. What's
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Speaker 1: the word in the West? On Hawk talk? The word
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Speaker 1: in the West. They're sitting at the third spot. They
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Speaker 1: are tied with the Airs of the Cardinals at six
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Speaker 1: and three the Rams of six and three, but Hawks
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Speaker 1: don't have the tiebreaker there. They've already lost to the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: They've lost to the Rams. They had the advantage there,
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Speaker 1: so that makes this game even more important. We know
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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers are at the bottom in the
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Speaker 1: dungeon in the basement, looking up at everybody, hoping that
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Speaker 1: things fall apart. But I don't see that happening. Now
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Speaker 1: we know what happened with the Rams and the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: Forty nine ers. Man, they didn't play bad against the Saints.
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Speaker 1: He jumped up to a ten o league and I'm
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Speaker 1: checking the scores. I'm like, okay, forty Niners, let's make
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Speaker 1: it interesting. But then, as usual, the better team just
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Speaker 1: grinds you down. The team that makes the less least
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Speaker 1: mistakes grind you down. And they ended up losing twenty
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Speaker 1: seven to thirteen. But this just lets you know you
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Speaker 1: can't sleep on teams. The Niners got guys who are
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Speaker 1: getting paid they are prepping. It's not like they're just
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Speaker 1: gonna roll over and dive. They are still trying to
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Speaker 1: win football games. They put up a ray fighting it's
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Speaker 1: a really solid Saints team. Yeah, no question about it.
12:02
Speaker 1: I mean, the Saints have really came on strong the
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks in their out for seven and
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Speaker 1: two record. A lot of people think that they might
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Speaker 1: be one of the best teams in the NFC. But
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Speaker 1: the biggest story from that game was Drew Brees leaving
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Speaker 1: the game with multiple rib fractures on both sides of
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Speaker 1: his body and a collapse long. So I saw a
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Speaker 1: report that best case scenario hed come back in two weeks. Yeah, right,
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Speaker 1: not a chance. So I'm not at forty nah. And
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Speaker 1: apparently they said that he actually cracked cracked some of
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Speaker 1: those ribs a couple of weeks ago, they missed him
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Speaker 1: in the X ray and then when then he cracked
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Speaker 1: two more on Sunday. Now let's see all of it.
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Speaker 1: So he's all kinds of messed up. So they're just
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Speaker 1: hoping he's back for the playoffs. But the interesting thing
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Speaker 1: is we can see Jamis Winston era in New Orleans,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see how that Goes. I'm kind of I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of excited to see what he does. Yes, he
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Speaker 1: threw thirty touchdown and thirty picks the last time he
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Speaker 1: was there, or last time he was a starter in
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. But here's a difference. He got LASI surgery,
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Speaker 1: so hey are better. He can see the field a
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Speaker 1: little better now. And also he's gonna stretch the field
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Speaker 1: out the way Drew Brees can't. Not saying that he's
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Speaker 1: a better option than Drew Brees, but it does bring
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Speaker 1: something to the table that Drew Brees wasn't or hasn't
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Speaker 1: been doing much, and that's throw the ball down the field.
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Speaker 1: So there's the word in the West. Let's get to
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Speaker 1: know these Cardinals a little bit more. Man up is
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Speaker 1: this mass this man up on Hawk Talk. Only one
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Speaker 1: place you can started for time about the Arizona Cardinals,
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Speaker 1: and that is Kyler Murray. Taken on this entire Seahawks defense.
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Speaker 1: We've been getting to see how dynamic Kyler Murray is
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Speaker 1: as an athlete and as a quarterback. So far in
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Speaker 1: the year, he's two hundred or two hundred twelve for
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Speaker 1: three hundred and eleven for two thousand, three hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventy five yards, seventeen touchdowns, eight interceptions. However, running the football,
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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, eighty seven carries six hundred and four
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Speaker 1: yards ten touchdowns. He's only eight rushing yards behind Kenyan
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Speaker 1: Drake for the team leading rush yards, and last meeting
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Speaker 1: against the Seahawks, heaball out thirty four for forty eight
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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty yards, three touchdowns, a pick, fourteen
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Speaker 1: carries sixty seven yards in one touchdowns. It just seems
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Speaker 1: like Kylin Murray's is getting better every single week. He's
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Speaker 1: getting better, man, That's what That's what goodball players do.
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Speaker 1: You know that first year, I'm sure things are happening
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Speaker 1: fast for him. Now, Ryan, he's been in the same
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Speaker 1: offense since he's been in high school, so it's not
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Speaker 1: like he's learning new languages or whatnot. So you expect
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Speaker 1: him to make these strides six hundred and four yards,
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Speaker 1: ten touchdowns. So he's accounting for twenty seven touchdowns and
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Speaker 1: only eight turnovers. That's pretty close to what Russell Wilson
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Speaker 1: is doing when you add him the rushing factor to that.
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Speaker 1: Not surprised with what this young man's been doing on
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Speaker 1: him in sack twelve times, Yeah, it's because he's rushed
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Speaker 1: six hundred and four yards. Dude's elusive. You're not gonna
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Speaker 1: get your hands on him often. You gotta look after
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Speaker 1: Kylin Murray. Now, let's go over and talk about the
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Speaker 1: guy who kind of opened the door for Kylin Murray. Russell,
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Speaker 1: Wilson and Verse the Cardinals defense. Now, Russell is two
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three for three one hundred thirty four
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Speaker 1: twenty seven one hundred eighty nine yards, twenty eight touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: ten interceptions. We all know the struggles he's had turned
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Speaker 1: the ball over the last couple of weeks, forty five carries,
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Speaker 1: three hundred twenty five yards and one touchdown, and for
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Speaker 1: the first time all year, he did not have a
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Speaker 1: passing touchdown against the Rams, very surprising. A couple opportunities,
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Speaker 1: threw a pick on one and then officers really didn't
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Speaker 1: get going. And they're trying to avoid losing three games
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Speaker 1: in a row. First time that will happened in Russell's career,
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Speaker 1: and this is gonna be a tough team to kind
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Speaker 1: of break that street. They confused Russell the last time
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Speaker 1: they played him and brought a lot of pressure. We've
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Speaker 1: seen that the last few weeks since then, teams are
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Speaker 1: gonna challenge Russell to make the right decisions. But I
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Speaker 1: still I think Russell is one of the hardest working
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Speaker 1: dudes I've been around. I've seen him go to work,
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Speaker 1: so I expect him to bounce back and correct his
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Speaker 1: wrongs this week. Yeah, no question about it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: in the national perspective, he may have dropped out of
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Speaker 1: the MVP conversation. I still think he's the best quarterback
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Speaker 1: and best football player in the league. But there's just
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Speaker 1: we said it last week and we still kind of struggled.
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Speaker 1: But you just can't hold these guys down for long.
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Speaker 1: And what I really want to see is, like, yes,
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Speaker 1: we talk about the pressure the Arizona is going to
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Speaker 1: bring in the different things that they do. I want
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Speaker 1: to get back to it being about us. It's about
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Speaker 1: what we do, and it's other teams adjusting to what
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Speaker 1: we do. Ryan Schottenheimer and Russell Wilson have had a
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Speaker 1: great chemistry this year. Shoddy has called some unbelievable plays.
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Speaker 1: I think at the end of this season, Shoddy will
16:26
Speaker 1: be in contention for some head coaching jobs just that's
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Speaker 1: how well he's done this year. But it needs to
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Speaker 1: be about us. I think, I think I want to
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Speaker 1: see us doing some different things. I want to see
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Speaker 1: us doing some things to confuse them. I want to
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Speaker 1: see us getting back to a running game. I want
16:38
Speaker 1: to see Dwayne Brown out there matching people on the
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Speaker 1: second level. So I just want to see us get
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Speaker 1: back to some of the things we're doing, get back
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Speaker 1: to those explosive plays that we really haven't seen the
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Yep, I'm with you and I
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Speaker 1: from what I've seen in the run game, that just
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Speaker 1: sleep works. It holds those linebackers. We have to take
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Speaker 1: a note from the Rams and the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 1: They used that jet suite. They'll give it to that
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Speaker 1: receiver doing the jet suite every now and then to
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Speaker 1: keep that defense honest. But you show him that jet suite,
17:10
Speaker 1: you hand it out to DJ or Alex or whoever.
17:12
Speaker 1: I think things will start to open up. Next matchup,
17:15
Speaker 1: Booda Bacon versus our body man. This dude, every time
17:19
Speaker 1: I watch him play, he gets better and better. I
17:21
Speaker 1: start to like him more and more. He's a husky,
17:23
Speaker 1: so I had to had to get through the kug
17:26
Speaker 1: husky theme. But real recognize real, all right, This dude
17:30
Speaker 1: has seventy three tackles on the year, two interceptions, four
17:33
Speaker 1: passes defended, and one forced fumble. He led the NFL
17:38
Speaker 1: and tackles last season with one hundred and four. What
17:41
Speaker 1: can you say about this dude? The one part where
17:43
Speaker 1: he was struggling in this game was interceptions, right, had
17:46
Speaker 1: none before this year. Guess what he's got two. Now
17:49
Speaker 1: he's evolving and he is one of the fastest, fiercest,
17:54
Speaker 1: but yet composed dudes I've ever seen play the game.
17:57
Speaker 1: He was miked up, and when he's playing, I mean
18:00
Speaker 1: he's gone. He's moving out one thousand miles an hour.
18:02
Speaker 1: Then he also has this calmness about him to where
18:04
Speaker 1: he brings the team team in and it really leaves them. Yeah,
18:07
Speaker 1: no question about it. He the things that he can do.
18:08
Speaker 1: It's it's funny because he's so impressive because he's everywhere
18:13
Speaker 1: on the football field. Like they don't play exactly the same,
18:17
Speaker 1: but the way he is in the run game reminds
18:18
Speaker 1: me a little bit of Bob Sanders because it's like
18:20
Speaker 1: I'm playing at twelve yards and now I'm making a
18:23
Speaker 1: tackle on the line of scrimmage. Like he's that he's
18:25
Speaker 1: that good in what he does, and yeah, you have
18:27
Speaker 1: to account for him on every single play. Where's he
18:29
Speaker 1: gonna be. He got us on the goal line last
18:31
Speaker 1: week or last time he played them before he got
18:33
Speaker 1: hacked down by DK Metcalf. So he's just a guy
18:35
Speaker 1: that you have to account for every time. He signed
18:37
Speaker 1: that big money extension four years, fifty nine million dollars
18:40
Speaker 1: in August, highest paid safety in the NFL, and he's
18:43
Speaker 1: playing at that level, worth every penny. Get fourteen tackles,
18:47
Speaker 1: one interception, and one point five tackle for loss last
18:50
Speaker 1: time against the Seahawks. So he's that dude. We got it.
18:54
Speaker 1: We gotta be better, We gotta account for him, and
18:55
Speaker 1: we gotta get back to what we did against them
18:57
Speaker 1: in the first half when we were moving the ball up,
18:59
Speaker 1: all up and down the field. They couldn't stop himself.
19:02
Speaker 1: Be good to see us get back to that. Now.
19:04
Speaker 1: The dude that won the game for him last week,
19:07
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins against this secondary bump. I mean, I don't
19:11
Speaker 1: really know what else to say about hot Man hop
19:14
Speaker 1: He's the truth. Is he the best receiver in the NFL?
19:16
Speaker 1: Or is he at least one or two? He's the
19:19
Speaker 1: best in the game. He is the best in the game.
19:22
Speaker 1: I think I think Stefan Diggs needs a little more
19:25
Speaker 1: respect than he's been getting. I think he's in the
19:27
Speaker 1: mix as well. Michael Thomas has been injured this year,
19:30
Speaker 1: so he hasn't really seen much there. DK is on
19:32
Speaker 1: the move, but you're looking for a guy who's gonna
19:34
Speaker 1: do everything. He blocks, run after the catch, run the
19:38
Speaker 1: short routes, run the deep routs, and just like we
19:40
Speaker 1: saw last week, he can go up top and make
19:43
Speaker 1: one of the greatest plays of all time. My thing
19:47
Speaker 1: that concerns me the most, it's Griffin. Griffin gonna be there.
19:51
Speaker 1: He's gonna go against Tray Flowers, is Dunbar gonna be
19:53
Speaker 1: there where this team is hurting the most right now.
19:56
Speaker 1: Really allows Dee Hopkins to have enough to day nothing.
20:00
Speaker 1: There's nothing right now that says the happens. Ain't gonna
20:03
Speaker 1: go for ten and one hundred twelve, fifteen, twenty like
20:05
Speaker 1: he usually does. Well. We mentioned before we got on
20:07
Speaker 1: the podcast that honestly, I'll take ten for one hundred
20:10
Speaker 1: and three in a touchdown like he's going to make plays,
20:13
Speaker 1: He's gonna get his. I just don't want to see
20:15
Speaker 1: fifteen for one, seventy five and three, and yeah, you're right.
20:19
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if it's gonna be Shaquille,
20:21
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna be quitting Dunbar, Trey Flowers,
20:23
Speaker 1: h DJ Reid, whoever it is. They're just they're gonna
20:27
Speaker 1: have their hands when the gonna have to step up.
20:28
Speaker 1: I think we saw strides in the second half against
20:30
Speaker 1: the Rams, and I just want again we've talked about
20:32
Speaker 1: all year, just want a little bit aggressiveness. I want
20:34
Speaker 1: guys to take some chances because listen, he's gonna make
20:36
Speaker 1: some plays. So it's almost like, what do you got
20:38
Speaker 1: to lose, You might as well try to mix it
20:40
Speaker 1: up with him. I mean, obviously he's a great rout runner.
20:42
Speaker 1: He can go over the top, he can do short stuff.
20:44
Speaker 1: So whatever it is, you're gonna have to step up,
20:46
Speaker 1: big man, and don't get discouraged when he makes a
20:48
Speaker 1: big play. Just keep keep coming back short memories. Dbs
20:52
Speaker 1: always have to. And the one thing I will say,
20:55
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a good or bad. We've
20:57
Speaker 1: gone against everyone in the league. We've gone against the
20:59
Speaker 1: best wide receivers in the game, so they're not going
21:01
Speaker 1: to see something they haven't seen before. It's just getting
21:04
Speaker 1: that film study. Try to do better and somewhat contain
21:07
Speaker 1: Hopkins and I'm good with a pim grab him. I'll
21:13
Speaker 1: take him twenty yards spot foul rather than a sixty
21:16
Speaker 1: yard bomb and his average is up. So contain d Hopkins.
21:20
Speaker 1: Good luck, but contain him. Next matchup, Kenyan Drake versus
21:24
Speaker 1: Seahawks front seven. They got a nice one two punch man.
21:27
Speaker 1: They got Key and drag back there that you have
21:29
Speaker 1: Colin Murray, who you mentioned. There's a few yards behind
21:32
Speaker 1: Kei and Drake. When it comes to rushing yards, he's
21:34
Speaker 1: got one hundred and thirty five carries, six hundred and
21:36
Speaker 1: twelve yards, four touchdowns. Didn't play against the Dolphins, play
21:39
Speaker 1: well against Buffalo with one hundred yards on sixteen carries.
21:44
Speaker 1: And you gotta factory in Chase Edmonds too. I know
21:47
Speaker 1: he's not a focal point, but they make something in
21:49
Speaker 1: as well. That whole run game is just on point
21:51
Speaker 1: right now. You got a quarterback who can get it done.
21:53
Speaker 1: You gotta running back who's versatile, and don't forget you
21:56
Speaker 1: got the little homie coming off the bench who can
21:58
Speaker 1: give the starter blow and still be just as effective.
22:01
Speaker 1: I like the run game. Well, the thing that makes
22:03
Speaker 1: the run game so tough, and this is anyone the
22:05
Speaker 1: same with like the Baltimore Ravens is typically when you're
22:08
Speaker 1: talking about a run game and run fits, okay, it's
22:10
Speaker 1: eleven on ten, the quarterback is not part of the
22:13
Speaker 1: run game. But against against the Cardinals, it's eleven on eleven.
22:16
Speaker 1: You have to have a guy count for him in
22:18
Speaker 1: every single play. So it makes you makes you have
22:20
Speaker 1: to be disciplined. That means Jordan Brooks made some good
22:22
Speaker 1: plays that first game. He's gonna have to be disciplined
22:24
Speaker 1: because he's got the speed to run Kyler down. He's
22:26
Speaker 1: gonna have to play well. Kaji Right's gonna have to
22:28
Speaker 1: play well. Bobby Wagner is gonna have to play well
22:30
Speaker 1: because if both things are going against the Cardinals, you're
22:32
Speaker 1: gonna be in for a long day because if if
22:34
Speaker 1: they can run the ball as well as you're thrown
22:36
Speaker 1: right now, it's gonna be a rough day. But the
22:38
Speaker 1: positive about the last matchup against them, we shut Kenyan
22:42
Speaker 1: Drake down. He had fourteen carries for thirty four yards
22:45
Speaker 1: two point four yards per carry. So we're definitely gonna
22:47
Speaker 1: see more of need to see more of that for
22:48
Speaker 1: the seats to get a win on Thursday night. Yes, sir,
22:52
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to see more of that. And now
22:54
Speaker 1: that leads us right into the path to victory. After
23:00
Speaker 1: forty five waits for the staff, Michael Vickson puts it down.
23:04
Speaker 1: That kick is away and that kick inn it's gun.
23:09
Speaker 1: It's a pass to victory on Hawk Talk, all right,
23:13
Speaker 1: pat to victory first and four more So, you have
23:15
Speaker 1: to take over take care of the football. Too many
23:18
Speaker 1: turnovers the last two or three weeks. They're not oblivious
23:21
Speaker 1: to this. They're on the field when they turn the
23:23
Speaker 1: ball over. They have players and coaches who care about
23:25
Speaker 1: their jobs. People relax, they're not just going to ignore
23:28
Speaker 1: the fact that Russell's making poor decisions. They're having conversations,
23:31
Speaker 1: they're coming up with game plans. We just have to
23:34
Speaker 1: trust a fair going to write the ship again. They're
23:36
Speaker 1: six and three. They don't turn the ball over. They're
23:38
Speaker 1: easily seven. He's the one, seven and two number one,
23:43
Speaker 1: no question about it. And going along with take care
23:45
Speaker 1: of football. You need to run the football, man, and
23:47
Speaker 1: not just run it. To run it obviously every time
23:49
Speaker 1: you drop a play, you're hoping you get big yardage.
23:51
Speaker 1: That's why they have them. But we gotta run it
23:53
Speaker 1: effectively because we just need more balance on offense. I
23:56
Speaker 1: know everyone wants to go out there and let Russ blank,
23:59
Speaker 1: but oh, you're done with that, you know. Yeah, I'm
24:03
Speaker 1: done with it. I'm done hearing it. I'm done hearing it.
24:05
Speaker 1: So and he is. We know how good Russell is.
24:07
Speaker 1: He's going to get out of this. He's not going
24:09
Speaker 1: to continue to turn the ball over. But he needs
24:11
Speaker 1: help in the sense of keeping guys on this man
24:14
Speaker 1: because the way teams are going to defend us now,
24:17
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, listen, we are done getting beat over
24:19
Speaker 1: the top. They watched that for five weeks and they said,
24:22
Speaker 1: whatever we're doing, we're not getting beat over the top.
24:23
Speaker 1: We're gonna put a sate, we're gonna play some cover two.
24:25
Speaker 1: We're gonna got to be physical underneath, and we're not
24:28
Speaker 1: giving a big play. So we need to run the ball.
24:30
Speaker 1: And when they do all that pressure stuff, if we're
24:32
Speaker 1: running the ball, it takes them out of it. Okay,
24:34
Speaker 1: we can run to the pressure. We can. So if
24:37
Speaker 1: we run the ball, I think it's going to help
24:38
Speaker 1: us open things up. On offense. I'm with you, run
24:41
Speaker 1: that rod. They also have to start fast on defense.
24:44
Speaker 1: You can't let the cardos Is do what they do
24:46
Speaker 1: and then second half you figure it out. They started
24:49
Speaker 1: fast against offensively, they need to start fast as well
24:52
Speaker 1: because last week was the first time the Rams. The
24:56
Speaker 1: second time the rams is giving up a touchdown on
24:58
Speaker 1: the opening drive for their opponents. So offense, defense start
25:02
Speaker 1: fast last couple of weeks and feel sluggis something don't
25:05
Speaker 1: feel right. There's not the excitement. I heard someone say.
25:08
Speaker 1: You know, it's probably because they're not playing on primetime.
25:11
Speaker 1: When you're sitting around all day, you have all the
25:14
Speaker 1: what do you call like the production trucks outside. When
25:16
Speaker 1: you pull up you see Sunday night football. You're gonna
25:20
Speaker 1: get going. Well, now it's Thursday night football. You got
25:22
Speaker 1: prime time football again. Use that energy. Defense start fast, often,
25:26
Speaker 1: start even faster, yep, And then you know while you're
25:29
Speaker 1: on defense, man, when you pressure Caylin Murray, be disciplined.
25:32
Speaker 1: That's the thing about him, and he's so elusive. You
25:34
Speaker 1: gotta have integrity when you blitz, run at the right hip,
25:36
Speaker 1: do what you can. If you need a blitz and peel.
25:38
Speaker 1: Do what you have to do because you got to
25:40
Speaker 1: contain in the pocket, and that goes for a defensive
25:42
Speaker 1: line as well. He's just so he wants to get
25:44
Speaker 1: fleshed out. He wants to make moves with his legs.
25:47
Speaker 1: And if you can make him have to step up
25:49
Speaker 1: and really sit there and make reads in the court
25:51
Speaker 1: in the pocket, it's gonna be better for our defense
25:53
Speaker 1: as a whole. So make sure your disciplined. Tyler Murray
25:56
Speaker 1: is going to make plays, but do everything in your
25:58
Speaker 1: power to keep inside the pocket. Yes, sir, And now Russell, Hey, Russell,
26:02
Speaker 1: just be yourself, baby, be the guy that we have
26:05
Speaker 1: known to love, that we grew with. We know you
26:08
Speaker 1: have it in You just got to step back and
26:10
Speaker 1: make the right football play. You don't have to make
26:13
Speaker 1: the spect tackling and play every time. This make the
26:15
Speaker 1: right football play. I think he would get back to that.
26:17
Speaker 1: I feel like he was humble. This is the most
26:19
Speaker 1: humble I've heard him after a game last week. He's
26:22
Speaker 1: usually humble, but those is a different kind of humble,
26:25
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that. I think he's going to get
26:27
Speaker 1: back to work. We need the Russell from the first
26:29
Speaker 1: five six games, yep. And then we need DK Metcalf
26:31
Speaker 1: and Tyner Lockett to step back up, right. I mean
26:34
Speaker 1: we are so accustomed to them rotating games and going
26:36
Speaker 1: off every single week. Last week was the first week
26:39
Speaker 1: we didn't see DK Metcalf really make those impact plays
26:42
Speaker 1: and get involved in the past game. Some of that's
26:44
Speaker 1: what the Rams are doing. Some of that was Jane Ramsey.
26:46
Speaker 1: Some of that was just it happens at receiver. Sometimes
26:49
Speaker 1: it's just not your day. But we need them to
26:51
Speaker 1: resurface and come back and help us out because what
26:54
Speaker 1: happened last time. We're in Arizona are going up and
26:56
Speaker 1: down the field. We need those big plays from those
26:58
Speaker 1: two guys, all right, We need him to have a
27:01
Speaker 1: big game. We need DK, We need Locket, we need Russell,
27:04
Speaker 1: we need Bobby. All hands on deck to avoid this
27:07
Speaker 1: three game losing streak. The Cardinals are coming to the
27:10
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest. It's gonna be a great battle on Thursday
27:14
Speaker 1: Night football. It's been real. I'm Michael Bumpers, He's Nasa Choby.
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Speaker 1: That's Hawk Talk Preview edition, week eleven. That's right, the
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